Lowkey has made manpain my new favorite word...

[nal_rene]

So I spent 7 hours yesterday sewing my corset for the Renaissance fair in mid-august. IT'S SO PRETTY! Best part? I did it almost all by myself. I have to go back over to Chloe's house later next week, so she can sew the boning into it, but it's so pretty. I'll put up a picture after it's all done. My skirt too. I decided to put silver bells on the flounce of the skirt. What is a flounce? Umm... it's a piece of fabric that goes "FLOUNCE" when you move. You'll see.

Umm... that's it.

Well we talked about politics too. It's funny because Chloe's family is conservative, but it makes sense. They talk about the "budget crisis" (Chloe's mom is a BA accountant) and her mom says "I wish ordinary people could understand that when they say they are making cuts, they aren't cutting what we are currently spending but what we are going to spend next year which is already 10% higher than what we are spending currently." It makes sense.

What's so funny? My family is liberal democrats and I am smack dab in the middle moderate.

My only complaint? When i register to vote this year, I am forced to either choose Democrats or Republican, I don't get to choose independent. That's F-ed up. Just saying.

Comments

[mako_lies]

My entire problem with the Republican plan is they want to make cuts, only. Cuts on things like medicare, medicaid, social security, financial aid. Things we need. Things we need because of this recession.

With the Republicans, taxing people who can afford to be taxed is NOT AN OPTION, because to get elected, they ran on platforms of NO NEW TAXES. Which means we keep up with the Bush Tax Cuts, which means we have no revenues.

Just politics as usual. Bullshit.

[nal_rene]

I think one of the only tax cuts I would make would be reducing our corporate tax rate from 30% to 20% because that would encourage corporations to come back to the US, versus out sourcing all of their products. This would produce more jobs here in the states, which would generate more tax revenue than the corporate taxes do. We hardly see any taxes from that source because the cost to corporations are so high that they outsource any production.

[lowkey]

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[nal_rene]

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